Re: infloop when removing character

[Simon Josefsson]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Program received signal SIGTSTP, Stopped (user).
>     0x08140f15 in scan_newline (start=1086115847, start_byte=513066, limit=1,
>       limit_byte=1, count=-9641, allow_quit=0) at search.c:809
>     809                   while (--cursor != ceiling_addr && *cursor != '\n')
>     (gdb) p count
>     $9 = -9641
>
> Something made count smaller.  Apparently some other code did run.
> Can you find out what happened?

Yes, the next time it happens.  I hope to come up with a way to
reproduce it, it has happened maybe 5 times now.